CURTIS, Paul Augustus
| Service Number: | 6170 |
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| Enlisted: | 19 October 1915 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Fielding, New Zealand, September 1885 |
| Home Town: | Newtown (NSW), Inner West, New South Wales |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Linotype operator |
| Died: | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia, 15 November 1926, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Sandgate General Cemetery, Newcastle, NSW PRESBYTERIAN-13SW. 22. |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 19 Oct 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 6170, 24th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 31 Oct 1916: | Involvement Private, 6170, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Argyllshire embarkation_ship_number: A8 public_note: '' | |
| 31 Oct 1916: | Embarked Private, 6170, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Argyllshire, Sydney | |
| 10 Jun 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 6170, 24th Infantry Battalion, medically unfit (otis media) |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Gary Mitchell, Sandgate Cemetery
Served and suffered during The Great War, resting at Sandgate Cemetery.
98 years ago today, on the Tuesday afternoon of the 16th November 1926, Private Paul Augustus Curtis, 24th Battalion (Reg No-6170), linotype operator from 18 L'Avenue, Newtown, New South Wales, was laid to rest at Sandgate Cemetery, age 41. PRESBYTERIAN-13SW. 22.
Born at Fielding, New Zealand about 1885 to Robert Augustus and Elizabeth Curtis; husband of Poppy (Nellie, Nelle, Elanor H) Curtis nee McLennan, married 1921, Sydney, N.S.W., remarried?, died?, Paul enlisted on the 19th October 1915 at Holsworthy, N.S.W.
Unit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales on board HMAT A8 Argyllshire on the 31st October 1916.
Wounded in action - 4.10.1917 (GSW left arm & buttock, Broodseinde Ridge, Passchendaele, Belgium).
Embarked for England and to hospital 18.10.1917.
Admitted to hospital 11.3.1918 (orchitis), 15.12.1918 (influenza).
Commenced return to Australia 17.3.1919.
Paul arrived home invalided on the 30th April 1919, being discharged medically unfit (otis media) on the 10th June 1919.
I have not located Mr. Curtis’s name inscribed on any known War Memorial or Roll of Honour.
I have placed poppies at Paul’s gravesite in remembrance of his service and sacrifice for God, King & Country.
Not officially commemorated.
There is also a Memorial Wall Plaque that has been placed at The Capt. Clarence Smith Jeffries (V.C.) and Pte. William Matthew Currey (V.C.) Memorial Wall located inside the grounds by persons unknown.
Contact with descendants would be greatly appreciated.
For more detail, see “Forever Remembered“.
http://www.commemoratingwarheroes.com/cemetery-main-search/.
Lest We Forget.
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